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Argentine first division football clubs on Thursday listened to broadcasters Fox and Turner say that they want to spend a total of 2.2B Argentine pesos ($140M) for the TV rights for '17, according to González & Czyz of LA NACION. Fox and Turner execs added that they want "to pay this...

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Infront Sports & Media will become the media rights partner for the Spengler Cup Davos. Hosted by the Swiss team HC Davos, the Spengler Cup is an invitational tournament, which features six teams from around the world and for the past 88 years has been an annual feature on the calendar between C ...

Some broadcasting insiders are "asking if Channel 4 is airing Formula One on a not-for-profit basis as part of a wider, strategic move because it might aid its efforts to ward off privatisation, by providing a service that a for-profit operator probably could not afford," according to Gideon Spani ...

Israeli pay-TV channel Charlton "extended its broadcast rights agreement with the English Premier League in Israel."
The deal covers the next three-year cycle, beginning with the '16-17 season, "and sees Charlton remain as the exclusive broadcaster of the Premier League in Israel."
No financial term ...

German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 agreed to a "deal with German free-to-air broadcasters ARD and ZDF and their joint rights agency SportA to sub-license a package of live broadcast rights for UEFA Euro 2016," according to SOCCEREX. Under the terms of the deal, ProSiebenSat.1 "will show six live game ...

Impressive TV ratings for the inaugural Women's Big Bash League have been "hailed as a landmark moment for women's sport in Australia, with the first two games attracting three times the audience of free-to-air A-League football matches this season," according to Chris Barrett of the SYDNEY MORNING ...

Channel 4 has bought the rights to broadcast Formula One races free-to-air in the U.K. "after the BBC scrapped its coverage three years early to save money," according to Henry Mance of the FINANCIAL TIMES. C4, which is also publicly owned, "will broadcast 10 races a season" between '16 and '18. It ...

Asia Sports Venture, a subsidiary of Malaysian TV company Astro Group, claimed that its former COO misappropriated RM 45,000 ($10,493) and "failed to act in the interests of the firm," according to Siau Ming En of TODAY. Documents filed with the courts showed that ASV claims that Venu Ganesh Naidu R ...

Bloomberg Television "acquired the rights to sports news and long-form programming" of the world’s longest ocean race, the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, according to CLIPPER VENTURES. Season two of the series "Race of Their Lives" aired over the weekend and comprises seven one-hour shows ...

The "row between the Premier League and Virgin Media over the way live TV rights are sold has been re-ignited by the Government’s sports strategy, published this week," according to Charles Sale of the London DAILY MAIL. U.K. Minister for Sport Tracey Crouch’s report "had the headline an ...

During Barcelona's 3-0 defeat of Argentine first division club River Plate in the final of the Club World Cup, Barcelona's official Twitter account misspelled River Plate, referring to the last substitution made by "Riber." The error "generated mockery from many followers" ( DEPOR.PE, 12/20 ). ... ...